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This Blueberry Almond Coffee Cake has a soft crumb, melt-in-your-mouth almond streusel topping and juicy bursts of blueberry tang. If there was one cookbook that defined my childhood, it would be Jean Paré’s Muffins & More. The tattered, brown cookbook covered with old-fashioned photos and the bespectacled face of Ms. Paré herself was a mainstay in…

Tender, citrus-infused lemon cupcakes are piped high with seasonal grapefruit buttercream frosting for the perfect sweet and tangy treat. Well, it’s 2017. (Yes, I know it’s more than a week into 2017 but let me be.) Before I get to these Lemon Cupcakes with Grapefruit Buttercream, I want to tell you a story that pretty much…

Warm maple syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon and walnuts coat these soft Maple Roasted Plums, nestled in a bed of fresh vanilla bean ice cream. Before we get to the healthy (ish?) sugar overload that is today’s Maple Roasted Plums recipe, I want to talk about what I was doing exactly one year ago. For many,…

These simple Strawberry Granola Overnight Oats are chock full of large flake oats, chia seeds, almond milk and fresh chopped strawberries. Breakfast has always been my favourite meal of the day. Just the name itself, to break one’s fast, is great. Fasting is uncomfortable and makes you hangry. I often want to Spartan-kick anyone who…